THE ALMOND. 



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twenty different cultivators from the States of Ohio, Michigan, 

 Illinois, Indiana and eastern Iowa. 



Early Harvest. 



Carolina Red June. 



Red Astrachan. 



Large Sweet Bough. 



American Summer Pearmain. 



Sweet June. 



Summer Queen. 



Maiden's Blush. 



Keswick Codlin. 



Pall Wine. 



Rambo. 



Belmont. 



FaU Pippm. 



Pameuse. 



Jonathan. 



Tolman Sweet. 



Rome Beauty. 



Domine. 



Swaar. 



Westfield Seek-no-further. 



Ortley or "White Bellflower. 



Broadwell. 



Yandevere of K T., or Newtown 



Spitzenburgh. 

 Yellow Bellflower. 

 "White Pippin. 

 American Golden Russet. 

 Herefordshire Pearmain. 

 "White "Wmter Pearmain. 

 "Wine Sap. 

 Rawle's Janet. 

 Red Canada. 

 "WUlow Twig. 



Newtown Pippin does not generally succeed at the "West, yet in some 

 locaUties they are very fine. Rhode Island Greening and Baldwin gene- 

 rally fail in many sections, while in others they are excellent. 



A Selection of Apples for the South and South-we^H, 



Early Harvest. 



Carolina June. 



Red Astrachan. 



Gravenstein. 



American Summer Pearmain. 



Juhan. 



Mangum. 



Fall Pippm. 



Maiden's Blush. 



Summer Rose. 



Porter. 



Rambo. 



Large Early Bough. 



Fall Queen or Ladies' Favourite. 



Oconee Greening. 



Equinetely. 



Nickajack. 



Maverack's Sweet. 



Batchelor or King. 



Buflf. 



Shockley. 



Ben Davis. 



Hall. 



Mela Carle. 



Horse. 



Bonum. 



Large Striped Pearmain. 



Rawle's Janet. 



Disharoon. 



Meigs. 



Cullasaga. 



Camack's Sweet. 



CHAPTER IX. 



THE ALMOND. 



Amygdalus communis, Dec. JRosacece, of botanists. 



Amandier, of the French ; Mandelbaum, German ; Mandorlo, Italian ; 



Almendro, Spanish. 



The Almond tree, which is a native of the north of Africa, 



